Wizard of Awes is your source for the most unique gourdart designs available. Our gourd artwork can also be customized. Contact our gourd artist! I'm represented by the "A Muse Gallery" in Sedona, Arizona, located in the Hillside Galleries on Highway 179 just before you enter town. Please stop by if you're in Sedona and say hello...the owners are lovely people. The gallery features whimsical...

Please visit the techniques page for free tutorial videos. I share how to use inks, embossing powders, heat activated glue, varnish and so many more products and techniques. Please visit again soon and be the first to know about the new products and techniques coming in late spring or early summer. The Gallery shows the latest designs and new class offerings. I hope to accomplish many new...

GourdArt and Blog by Gourd Artist Dani Montoya- Hand-paint, Carve, Wood-burn and weaving on Gourds. Gourds are a wonderful medium for artists to work with. Each gourd is Unique in shape, size, and color. That makes them an interesting canvas, one that lends itself well to painting, carving, and...

Decorate your home or office with our remarkable and unique gourdart objects crafted from gourds and other natural materials. Please feel free to explore our many pages of gourd crafts and unique gourdart. We've created a number of different gourdart categories for our painted gourds and an...

The GourdArt Gallery presents the powerful and unique GourdArt designs of Award Winning Gourds Artist Deborah Easley. In my rendering, I attempt to magnify the gourd's inherent and natural beauty through the use of contemporary and historical gourdart media. Each piece of gourdart is "alive" with a life of it's own, only to be enhanced by one's imagination. Enjoy the gallery! Welcome to my...

Beautiful gourdart, classes and lessons by Geri Wood-Gittings of Phoeniz, Arizona. Geri is a published gourd artist offering beautiful carved, painted and embellished gourds, masks, dolls, urns, paintings and commissioned art. Her spectacular gourdart is available online and at Arizona Galleries. Gourdart has never been more popular than it is today and Geri Wood-Gittings' work has quickly...

International GourdArt Festival - The world's largest festival of gourds!

The International GourdArt Festival is the worlds largest festival of arts, crafts, and gourds! The very popular annual GourdArt Festival held at Welburn Gourd Farm in Fallbrook, CA celerated it's final show in June 2011. After 15 great shows, tens of thousands of visitors, hundreds of amazing gourd artists exhibits, gourdart competitions, live entertaiment, and so much more, it was time to...

After cleaning the fun begins! I study each of the gourds and they tell me what they want to become. Do they want to be open vessels, bowls with lids, maybe they have been broken and can be used for a mask or possibly they want to be illuminated. Do they hear the ancestors calling and want to be a drum, rain stick or rattle. So many possibilities…… all unique and special. I love my gourds, I...

For those of you unfamiliar with a gourd, it is a vegetative product of a plant and grows very much like a squash or pumpkin. But there the similarity ends as gourds are not edible. After they are done growing a gourd is left to dry which takes several months. It is thru this drying process that the gourd gets its hard, almost wood-like shell. The shell makes the gourd suitable for many...

Many of her gourds were home grown in Santa Barbara, CA. Her gourds are dried and cleaned by hand, prior to sketching, painting, dyed, etched or wood-burned. Upon moving to Santa Fe (2006) she took her unfinished gourds with her. Her work with gourds is done with simple hand tools rather than machines to create an old world artistic quality that makes each of her works really unique and...

However, when it seeps through thousands of holes of a gourd lamp's spherical layer, the magic begins to happen: the light searches for the shortest way to the screen on which it leaves its trace. That screen is the world around us - walls, furnitures, curtains. The way in which light brightens up our lives has a profound influence on the way we perceive reality, feel and function. Light is...

Pyrography, Gourd, Wood Art and Craft Supplies and Free Tutorials. Went off by myself to work on a burning of Sitting Bull that I brought with me. I had just started it & all that was done was part of his face (the burning didn't get done for several years due to commissions, running a pet therapy program, shows & teaching classes). While I was working on the burning a few guys came over to...

Typically, masks are created for the customer on commission and can be delivered in thirty days. Occasionally existing masks are available and can be viewed by photo or e-mail. Like other forms of art, the mask should enhance the home and be appreciated by the owner. If it¹s not working, it can be returned within thirty days for a refund or another mask. Each mask starts with a gourd and can...

Gourds are very versatile. Ancient civilizations used them for carrying, fetching and storing things,. With a little imagination gourds can be made into so many useful things even today, such as vases, bowls, sculptures, plant hangers, music boxes, birdhouses, feeders, luminaries, and even purses! The best thing about a gourd is that once it is finished, it lasts forever. That is why they make...

This website is designed for gourd artists to be able to easily find and buy some of the more commonly used embellishments. As a gourd artist, I have spent countless hours searching for an item, and then trying to find the best price. I’ve tried to do that for you here. Hopefully, the items that you want to add to your gourds will be found here -- including the gourd! If you don’t see something...

I would like to tell you why many artists, who like me, have painted portraits and landscapes in oils on canvas, worked with acrylics, watercolors, and pen and ink drawings, have turned to the art of gourd carving. The gourd is a wonderful product of Nature and has been used by ancient cultures all around the world for bowls, dippers, baskets, water containers, musical instruments, and...